Film Lesson 6

18th February, 2008

Our progress was extremely slow today.

Justin, our script writer did not do his job. He turned up to class without any script and without having even thought about the storyline at all. He lied to us about having written it at home, but he cannot repeat it back to us. It was extremely inconsiderate and none of us in our group agreed that with this kind of commitment should he be the director.

We don't have any more time to waste now, so we had to make a story plot, create characters for Justin to write at home.

Since I am in the drama extended class, I taught Justin the "actor's credo" when characterising the charaters.
1. What am I going to do/ doing/ did?
2. When am I from? (The time period)
3. Why am I here in this particular location?
4. Who am I associated with?
5. How did I get here?
6.How old am I?
7. What is my identity?
This is the set of rules actors use when we are ad-libbing to create a specific character. The way they talk, act, all influence on how the audience sees us as a character on stage, so if Justin takes note of how his characters should speak, his script should turn out quite alright.

IB Learner Profile: Thinkers
We were thinkers because we have applied all the things that we learnt about film noir into this storyplot. We were creative when creating the layered plotline of film noir, and we were also thinking critically about the feasibility of our ideas.